estate Copy link Outline I. StateII. Landed property1. praedium (strictly applicable only to e.s in Italy or provinces enjoying the jus Italicum; other landed properties being called possessiones, Habicht § 473; also in gen. sense)2. fundus (any landed property, small or large)3. ăger, gri4. possessio (a holding any kind; whether of freehold property or otherwise)III. An order or class • estate: I. State: stătus, ūs: v. state, condition. Phr.: to attain to man's e., adolescere, v. to grow up. II. Landed property: 1. praedium (strictly applicable only to e.s in Italy or provinces enjoying the jus Italicum; other landed properties being called possessiones, Habicht § 473; also in gen. sense): an e. in the country, rusticum pr., Nep. Att. 14: though he (Cimon) had e.s and pleasure-grounds in various places, quum compluribus locis praedia hortosque haberet, Nep.: Cic. 2. fundus (any landed property, small or large): to visit one's e., f. suum obire, Cic.: neither house nor e., non domus non f., Hor. 3. ăger, gri: v. farm, land. 4. possessio (a holding any kind; whether of freehold property or otherwise): he promises the soldiers land from his own e.s, militibus agros ex suis p. pollicetur, Caes. B. C. 1, 17: e.s in Epirus and the capital, Epiroticae et urbanae p., Nep. Att. 14. Phr.: an e. at Tusculum, Tusculanum (sc. praedium), Cic.: to stay at your e. in Epirus, ut apud te in Epiro sim, Cic. Att. 3, 7, init. III. An order or class: Phr.: the three e.s of the realm, *civitatis (reipublicae) ordines terni: v. order.
ESTATE Copy link • ESTATEState, Vid: Condition, rank, Vid: Landed property; usually with a real estate, praedium (sometimes the house on the estate): villa (a country-house; sometimes the estate): fundus (the real estate; usually with a country-house; villa is an architectural, fundus, an economical, praedium, a juridical term; Döderlein). An estate in the country, rusticum praedium: ager: rus (PROP., country; opposed to town; then metonymy, for “estate in the country “). ☞ On the construction of rus, rure, in this sense, Vid: Obs. in FARM, s. Estates, agri (fields, landed property); possessions (possessions, whether land or not). [Vid: PROPERTY]. To lay out money in purchasing a landed estate, pecuniam collocare in solo (Suet., Tiberius, 48): an estate near a town, propinquum rus (Ter., Eun., 5, 6, 2). The estates of the realm, *ordines imperii. Man’s estate, aetas pubes: anni pubertatis (age of puberty); aetas constans, or constans, quae media dicitur; aetas adulta, firmata, confirmata, corroborata (age of full manly strength). To come to man’s estate, robustiorem fieri; se corroborare; pubertatem ingredi: when he was now come to man’s estate, cum is se jam corroboravisset, et vir inter viros esset (Cic., caelius, 11, 6).